| Andrew Bruce Davidson - Bible - 1916 - 486 pages
...saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded 15 with girdles upon their loins, 'exceeding in dyed...attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians 2in Chaldea, the land of their nativity. And 3as soon as... | |
| Mrs. Marie Conway Oemler, Marie Conway Oemler - 1917 - 424 pages
..."captains and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, all of them desirable young men, . . . girdled with a girdle upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to" . . . whom Aholibah "doted upon when her eyes saw them portrayed upon the walls in vermilion." The... | |
| John Milton - 1919 - 276 pages
...imparting it to Milton. 620. to see to. An obsolete expression = to behold; cf. Ezekiel xxiii. 15: "Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in...upon their heads, all of them princes to look to," and Joshua xxii. 10, "a great altar to see to." skilled, ie versed in the lore of. Skill was a word... | |
| Charles Boutflower - Babylonia - 1923 - 370 pages
...writes thus : " She saw men pourtrayed upon the walls, the images of the Chaldeans, pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding...attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians, the land of whose nativity is Chaldea." 1 This language... | |
| Lily Adams Beck - Egypt - 1925 - 328 pages
...describes exactly what met their astonished eyes : — Chaldeans, portrayed with vermilion, gilded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding, in dyed...upon their heads, all of them princes to look to." Solemn lines of nobles, not a woman among them, converging to a throne supported on lions' legs and... | |
| Margaret Hattersley Bulley - Art, Ancient - 1926 - 422 pages
...painted, to satisfy the people's love of gay colour, paintings such as those alluded to in the Book of Ezekiel, " men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans, pourtrayed with vermilion, with dyed turbans upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness... | |
| Josef Samuel Bloch - Antisemitism - 1927 - 626 pages
..."horsemen riding upon horses, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, all of them desirable young men, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to" (23 : 5 ; 6) and practised forbidden intercourse. In order to point out to the degenerated women the... | |
| Simon Harcourt-Smith - Art - 1928 - 140 pages
...Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon . . . " she saw men portrayed upon the walls, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads " (Ezekiel xxiii. 14, 15). The picture would be equally suitable for the Assyrian empire, with its... | |
| D. H. Lawrence - Fiction - 2002 - 468 pages
...cinnabar, red lead' (ОED). 51:2 And Ezekiel... their nativity. — The Biblical passage reads: 'she saw ...vermilion, Girded with girdles upon their loins,...exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all... nativity:' (AV). 51:20 The Etruscans shared [51:16]... in a chair. In early Roman times women were... | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot - Poetry - 1996 - 476 pages
...doted'; 'she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion'; 'exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to'; 'captains and rulers, great lords and renowned'. i, 3, 5 Assyrian . . . perfume . . . hats: compare... | |
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